Main description:

"Hepatology" is a systematic overview. The 1st edition was sold out within one year and a reprint became necessary. The 2nd edition has been updated, revised and extended to include some 900 pages. It is unique - 477 top-quality coloured figures containing clinical and immunological findings, laparoscopic and histologic features as well as imaging procedures, all figures are directly integrated in the respective text; this results in a new form of learning from "seeing" to "understanding". It is attractive - 306 tables in colour, there is coloured highlighting of important principles and statements for better reading. It is well-structured and systematic approaches support the content - derived from clinical hepatology for practical use by specialists and in hospital. It is instructive there is detailed presentation of morphology and its integration in liver disease, and precise recommendations for therapy and summarized descriptions of special forms of treatment (including a separate chapter on "Therapy".
The manual has about 7,000 references listed in full; quotations of significant historical publications, first author's of therapy procedures, methods, medical techniques and invasive measures are given as far as possible and a comprehensive subject index and register of abbreviations is also given.

Contents:

From the contentsIntroduction to hepatology: History of hepatology, morphology of the liver, biochemistry and functions of the liver.- Diagnostics in liver diseases: clinical findings, laboratory diagnostics, sonography, liver biopsy and laparoscopy, radiological diagnostics, scintigraphic diagnostics, neurological and psychological diagnostics.- Symptoms and syndromes: hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, jaundice, cholestasis, portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy, oedema and ascites, hepatorenal syndrome hepatopulmonary syndrome, coagulopathy and haemorrhage, acute and chronic liver insufficiency.- Clinical aspects of liver diseases: clinical and morphological principles, acute viral hepatitis, acute concomitant viral hepatitis, bacterial infections and the liver, parasitic infections and the liver, mycotic infections and the liver, liver abscess, alcohol-induced liver damage, drug-induced liver damage, liver damage due to toxic substances, metabolic disorders and storage diseases, cholangitis and cholangiodysplasia, autoimmune hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, benign hepatic lesions and tumours, malignant liver tumours, systemic diseases and the liver, cardiovascular diseases and the liver, therapy of liver diseases.- Abbreviations.- Subject Index.